Nature is wondrous but also brutal. This brutality has fed into our psyche so deeply we think we need to kill but actually all we need to do is defend. We killed not just to save our own lives but to take life and we take it in such quantities it is true to say…
Tag: evolution
We have to wonder
why nature created aggression. The problem for her is that once she creates something and it survives, getting it to survive in the world it creates without the skills that helped it survive, is impossible. There is no cut off valve and any amelioration of aggression would take hundreds of years. In fact the drive…
My Theory, Your Poison
There is much discussion going on in America and in other centres of religious devotion, about Evolution versus intelligent design. On the periphery are those who accept evolution but believe it to be the mechanism used by a god to make life. And pointing to leaps in the evolutionary chain and other things, they even…